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I need to copy an xml tag and its value to another xml file under same root tag. Create the root tag if it doesn't exist.

Here is an input output example.

INPUT: string.xml
<resource>
    <string name="app_name">MyExampleApp</string>
    <string name="profile">My Profile</string>
    <string name="messages">My Messages</string>
</resource>

$ command "profile" string.xml string1.xml

OUTPUT: string1.xml
<resource>
    <string name="profile">My Profile</string>
</resource>

I was looking for that "Command" and options. Not necessarily in that order. Please help me out here. Any Linux/Unix/Mac command will do

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Using XMLStarlet, you could delete all the string nodes under the root node whose name attribute is not profile:

$ xml ed -d '/resource/string[@name != "profile"]' string.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<resource>
  <string name="profile">My Profile</string>
</resource>

Add -O after ed if you don't want the XML declaration line.

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  • I think -t is not needed here (it's an option for sel, not ed). Aug 10, 2016 at 7:42
  • @SatoKatsura You're right, xml silently ignores it. I'll amend the answer.
    – Kusalananda
    Aug 10, 2016 at 7:46
  • xml ed -t segfaults here... Aug 10, 2016 at 7:47
  • @SatoKatsura Oopsie. What's the system and where did you get XMLStarlet from? I'm on OS X with XMLStarlet from NetBSD's pkgsrc.
    – Kusalananda
    Aug 10, 2016 at 7:48
  • OpenBSD (from ports) and Linux (compiled from sources). Aug 10, 2016 at 7:49

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